Kenya

Ethnic violence and animosity erupted in Kenya after the elections of December 2007, causing 650,000 people to flee their homes and becoming refugees within their own country (known as Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs). The vast majority of these people have still not been able to return to their homes. Together with the Forum for Society and History (FSH), the IHJR maintains that if Kenya is ever to reconcile with its past, then the fate of the country’s IDPs needs to be addressed.

As Kenya heads towards the next elections, the tragedy of the IDP remains unresolved. Instead, the IDP has become a term of political jargon used in the public sphere by politicians and others wishing to advance their ambitions. This common narrative, the voices of real IDPs from Nyanza and the Rift Valley suggests the identity of IDPs has transcended the tragedy of post-election violence to present an intense field of inquiry about history and Kenyan society that should interest not just historians but other social scientists.

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